Open to the right opportunity

Backend · Cloud · Full-stack

I build software that stays reliable when it matters.

I'm Anil Kumar, a senior software engineer and technical lead with 13+ years of experience designing APIs, modernizing platforms, and running distributed systems on AWS.

ArchitecturePlatform modernizationCloud deliveryTechnical leadership

01 / Professional initiatives

Professional experience, shown through real technical initiatives.

These case studies come from employer and client work—not personal products or side projects. They focus on Anil's responsibilities while keeping confidential details private.

01

Reduced legacy risk across a multi-service ecosystem

Enterprise platform modernization

Coordinated language, database, messaging, and delivery upgrades across a distributed education platform while keeping environment promotion predictable.

  • PHP 7.4 → 8.2 compatibility strategy
  • MySQL 5.7 → 8 upgrade planning
  • RabbitMQ quorum migration design
  • AWS EKS/ECR release controls
PHP 8Yii2MySQLRabbitMQAWS EKSKubernetes
02

Turned policy into an auditable, operable workflow

Privacy-first data lifecycle

Designed a cross-service retention and anonymization approach for sensitive applicant and student data, balancing policy, performance, and operational safety.

  • Field-level PII inventory
  • Off-peak chunked jobs
  • Retry-safe processing and runbooks
  • Cross-service auditability
PHPMySQLCronJobsQueuesAWS
03

Faster detection and safer recovery paths

Resilient integrations & incident learning

Improved external booking and identity integrations by treating contracts, observability, and incident learning as product features.

  • Semantic response validation
  • PII-safe structured logs
  • Failure-mode integration tests
  • RCA templates and rollback criteria
REST APIsAzure GraphRedisRabbitMQCloudWatch
04

Cleaner promotion and fewer environment-specific releases

Runtime configuration for modern web delivery

Separated Angular builds from environment configuration so one tested artifact could move safely through Kubernetes environments without recompilation.

  • APP_INITIALIZER configuration
  • Interceptor-safe loading
  • Separated secrets and non-secrets
  • Deployment documentation
AngularTypeScriptIonicAWSKubernetes

02 / Engineering range

Depth at the backend. Context everywhere else.

Backend systems

APIs, domain services, asynchronous workflows, performance

PHP · Laravel · Symfony · Yii2 · Node.js · REST

Cloud & platform

Container delivery, infrastructure decisions, reliability

AWS · Kubernetes · Docker · EKS · ECR · CloudWatch

Data & messaging

Relational design, migrations, caching, event-driven systems

MySQL · MariaDB · MongoDB · Redis · RabbitMQ

Full-stack leadership

Architecture, technical direction, delivery, mentoring

Angular · Ionic · React · CI/CD · GitHub Actions

Current

Senior Software Manager / Technical Lead

Enterprise education technology

Leading developers, testers, and platform delivery across backend services, web applications, integrations, and cloud infrastructure.

Recent focus

Platform modernization & reliability

Distributed systems on AWS

Owning upgrade strategies, architecture decisions, release controls, incident learning, and cross-team technical documentation.

13+ years

Backend & full-stack engineering

PHP, JavaScript, databases, cloud

Building production APIs and web products from implementation through system design and engineering leadership.

03 / Engineering notes

Ideas worth documenting.

A ready-made publishing area for migration playbooks, architecture decisions, and lessons from production systems.

Platform modernization · Writing queue

Migrating PHP 7.4 to 8.2 without breaking the release train

Distributed systems · Writing queue

From classic mirroring to quorum: a practical RabbitMQ plan

Full-stack delivery · Writing queue

Runtime configuration for Angular across Kubernetes environments

Available for the right challenge

Have a difficult system to improve?

Senior backend, full-stack, cloud, and technical leadership opportunities in India or Europe—including remote collaboration.

Zirakpur, Punjab, Indiaanildhiman03@gmail.com ↗

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